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Laborers and Contractors Donate Big Money for Holiday Cheer

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Laborers Local 500 and Associated General Contractors (AGC) Labor Management Cooperation Committee joined forces last week to provide two donations of $40,000 to local organizations that will utilize the funds to bring holiday cheer to hundreds of children and their families this season.

“We want every child to get to experience a Merry Christmas and so we focus on foster families,” said David Fleetwood, business manager of Laborers Local 500, as he and Joshua Hughes, CEO of AGC, handed the first check to the Order of the Elves, Inc., a non-profit group that buys, wraps and donates Christmas presents to foster children in Lucas County.

The Order of the Elves typically plans on reaching out with Christmas gifts to about 150 such foster children. The $40,000 donation will enable the group to expand their reach to well over 600 kids this year.

“We normally tell our case workers to ask for modest expectations in terms of gifts, and this year we can pretty much tell them the sky's the limit! And that's just such an amazing thing to do,” said Julie Malkin of Lucas County Children Services which supervises children in foster care.
 

Malkin says this donation will help many local children have a normal Christmas.

Tabernacle Church, Pastor Calvin Sweeney, received the other $40,000 that is earmarked for complete Thanksgiving meals that will be given to every family with a student at Pickett Academy, Robinson Elementary and Robinson Achievement schools.

“We want to express our gratitude and appreciation,” said Sweeney accepting the check. “When there is warmth in their stomachs, there is a smile on their faces,” he said of what will surely be the reaction students will have when they are munching on the Thanksgiving feasts provided by the donation.

“Our families are probably the most affected by the pandemic and a shortage of food. This is just very important and II know as an administrator that our families will be serviced,” said Principal M James Jones, EdD, of Robinson Elementary and Robinson Achievement.

Families planning to pick up the Thanksgiving goods can drop by Pickett Academy from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Thursday and Friday and Robinson from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.  

Hughes said: “This year has been a year like none that I can remember. Thankfully, we can help. Perhaps these actions will motivate a young person or their parent to explore a career in our industry, or it might just make the holiday season a little easier and happier for them.”

Fleetwood added: “We work in this community and it’s our responsibility to give back to this community. Our prayer is that these families will be able to take a moment and not worry about the tangibles but are able to enjoy one another during the holiday. Hopefully, one day soon, they too will be positioned to give back to their community.
 

 

   
   


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Revised: 11/25/20 13:15:14 -0500.


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